Yuan shuai

Yuan Shuai 元帥
Shoulder boards for the PLA rank yuan shuai (marshal), modelled after those of the marshal of the Soviet Union
Country	China
Service branch	People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Abolished	1965
Next higher rank	Da yuan shuai
Next lower rank	Da jiang

Yuan shuai (Chinese: 元帥) was a Chinese military rank that corresponds to a marshal in other nations. It was given to distinguished generals during China's dynastic and republican periods. A higher level rank of da yuan shuai (大元帥), which corresponds to generalissimo was awarded to Chiang Kai Shek of the Republic of China. It was also proposed for Mao Zedong on the mainland, but he ultimately never accepted it.

Song Dynasty[]

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  Yue Fei

Jin Dynasty[]

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  Puxian Wannu

Republic of China[]

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  Chiang Kai-shek

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  Lu Rongting

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  Tang Jiyao

People's Republic of China[]

The rank Marshal of the People's Republic of China (traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國元帥; simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国元帅; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Yuánshuài) was awarded to ten veteran generals of the People's Liberation Army in 1955. However, it was abolished in 1965 and was never restored.^{[citation needed]} The recipients of the rank were:

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  1. Zhu De

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  2. Peng Dehuai

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  3. Lin Biao

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  4. Liu Bocheng

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  5. He Long

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  6. Chen Yi

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  7. Luo Ronghuan

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  8. Xu Xiangqian

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  9. Nie Rongzhen

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  10. Ye Jianying

See also[]

• Other pronunciations of the characters 元帥
  • Gensui, the Japanese equivalent
  • Wonsu, the Korean equivalent
  • , the Vietnamese equivalent
• Grand yuan shuai (大元帥), a rank higher than yuan shuai
  • Da yuan shuai in Chinese
  • Dai-gensui, the Japanese equivalent
  • Taewonsu, the Korean equivalent
  • , the Vietnamese equivalent

External links[]

• PLA Figures at PLA Daily at the Wayback Machine (archived February 6, 2012)